New Award for Digital Documentary Storytellers

IDFA presents a new documentary award: the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. The prize is awarded to the DocLab project that uses digital technology in the most creative and effective way to tell a documentary story. Out of the IDFA DocLab 2010 selection, the jury nominated three projects:

California is a Place
HIGHRISE/Out My Window
Soul Patron

The award, consisting of a certificate and a Canon 5D Mk II camera, provided by Canon, will be given to the winning project during the IDFA Award Ceremony on Friday 26 November.

The jury for the 1st IDFA DocLab Award consists of three outstanding experts in the field of new media and digital storytelling: Alexandre Brachet (Upian, France), Antoinette Hoes (Leylines, the Netherlands) and Zach Wise (New York Times, USA).

The IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Documentary Storytelling is made possible by

DOCLAB

IDFA DocLab is the New Media program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Since 2007, the program showcases new forms of documentary storytelling and interactive media art, both online and offline. During the IDFA Festival in November, DocLab presents a competition program for Digital Documentary Storytelling, live cinema events, interactive installations, workshops and industry panels. The program is open to all media that can be used to tell a documentary story.more